12th grade grammar

Example

Is it right that a child should go hungry in a country this rich? What is the purpose of this rhetorical question?

1. Writers choose sentence length, order and patterns deliberately to create effects.
2. So the answer is: To make the reader reflect and agree that the situation is wrong.

Answer: To make the reader reflect and agree that the situation is wrong.

Example

Choose the form that is correct in formal written English. ___ I known about the storm, I would have stayed at home.

1. Formal English keeps the subjunctive after verbs of demanding and suggesting, in inverted conditions (Were it not, Had I known, Should you need) and in fixed phrases.
2. Inverted third conditional: 'Had I known' = 'If I had known'.
3. Put it back into the sentence and read it aloud: "Had I known about the storm, I would have stayed at home."
4. So the answer is: Had

Answer: Had

Example

Choose the correct form to complete the emphatic sentence. Rarely ___ snow in this part of Spain.

1. When a negative or restrictive expression begins a sentence for emphasis, the auxiliary comes before the subject (Never have I…).
2. 'Rarely' at the start: does + subject + base verb.
3. Put it back into the sentence and read it aloud: "Rarely does it snow in this part of Spain."
4. So the answer is: does it

Answer: does it

Example

Which part of this sentence is being emphasised by its structure? It was not the price but the quality that worried us.

1. Cleft sentences split a simple sentence into two parts to spotlight one element: It was Maya who… / What we need is…
2. The cleft contrasts and focuses on 'the quality'.
3. So the answer is: the quality

Answer: the quality